Spectra of prompt electrons from decays of B+ and B0 mesons and ratio of inclusive semielectronic branching fractions

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Abstract

We present spectra of prompt electrons from decays of neutral and charged B mesons. The results are based on 140 fb-1 of data collected by the Belle detector on the Υ(4S) resonance at the KEKB e+e - asymmetric collider. We tag Υ(4S)→BB̄ events by reconstructing a B meson in one of several hadronic decay modes; the semileptonic decay of the other B meson is inferred from the presence of an identified electron. We obtain for charged and neutral B mesons the partial rates of semileptonic decay, to electrons with momentum greater than 0.6 GeV/c in the B rest frame, and their ratio b+/b0=1.08±0. 05±0.02, where the first and second errors are statistical and systematic, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)27-36
Number of pages10
JournalPhysics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
Volume614
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 May 2005

Keywords

  • B decay
  • Inclusive
  • Semileptonic

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